Sunday, July 21, 2013
More Cities Should Go Bankrupt
Filing for bankruptcy is
an incredibly useful corporate turnaround tool. We should make it
easier for local governments to do it.
Yesterday, Detroit’s Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing was greeted with
sadness by those with personal or emotional attachments to the city. But
while you wouldn’t want to call it a cause for celebration, there’s no
need for mourning either. The genuinely sad thing about Detroit is not
the bankruptcy but the circumstances that induced it—decades of economic
and population decline amid deteriorating public services and civic
conditions. The bankruptcy itself, however, is not the decline. It’s a
sensible step forward that at least gives the same city some chance for
the future. And it raises the question of why more local governments with fiscal problems don’t file for bankruptcy.
The Aramco silence after operation #OPSA
Few days ago, Tunisian hackers particularly crack named XhackerTN attacked on targets in Saudi Arabia and collected important information in this way. The Saudi Aramco was the most important target of this operation in which its website got out of reach and removed from internet due to this attack. Hackers claimed the reason behind this attack was to protest and demonstrate securing Israel oil and fuel by the Aramco, and warned about probability of more such attacks on this company and similar targets in future. The Aramco does not react yet and gives no remark after this attack.
Last year, at the same time, the Aramco was under wide attack and as result 30000 of its computer became under attack and unlocked.
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Mobile Messaging Service Tango Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
The Syrian Electronic Army has breached into the official website of Tango (Tango.me) a popular mobile messaging service based in Mountain View, California.Hack was announced by the hackers on their official website, according to which the hackers have allegedly downloading 1.5 TB of daily backups including usernames, emails, addresses along with other contact details of site’s users and subscribers.
On their Twitter account, the hackers left several tweets related to hack:
Anonymous hacks, leaks emails and passwords of US Congress
Anonymous hackers
have claimed to breached the official website of US congress and its
mail server (mail.house.gov and senate.gov), as a result around 1800
email addresses along with their passwords have been leaked online.Hackers claim that emails and passwords belong to US Congress and their staff which have been compromised to make it clear on congress that Anonymous hackers have been keeping an eye on them over ongoing issues such as NSA, FISA and PRISM.
YES WE SCAN
While the NSA's scandal continues to dominate the news and with the leaker, Edward Snowden now publicly open with the reasons
for leaking the documents, there's also humor in some of the reactions.
Meme culture has some pretty humorous responses to the news.
FISA court renews NSA surveillance program
The Obama administration has renewed the authority for the National
Security Agency to regularly collect the phone records of millions of
Americas as allowed under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.The United States government has reportedly asked the FISA court every 90 days since 2006 to renew an order that compels the nation’s telecommunication providers to hand over telephony metadata pertaining to millions of US citizens. The program has been conducted in near total secrecy, however, until NSA leaker Edward Snowden released top-secret documentation to the Guardian newspaper which caused an international backlash upon being published last month.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Al-Qaeda vs. FSA: Declaring "Islamic State" First Day of Eid al-Fitr
The battles between the different
factions of the armed Syrian opposition raged recently, mainly between
the Free Syrian army and al-Qaeda which will declare its state in
northern Syria the first Day of Eid al-Fitr, according to leaked
information.
The Saudi daily, Asharq al-Awsat, quoted
a senior leader in the Free Syrian Army that al-Qaeda will announce its
"Islamic State" in the north of Syria after defeating the FSA rebels
and controlling the crossings that connect Syria to Turkey.
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